Re: [dvd-discuss] Bunner wins DeCSS trade secret appeal

["Michael A Rolenz" <Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org>]

Hey...let's take this even farther....anybody ever see source code for 
Windows? I sure haven't. Has it ever even been published anywhere? Looks 
like the only thing they go that promotes progress is sending out all 
those CDROMs and disk images. All I've got are a bunch of compressed zip 
files. Looks like "1"s and "O"s to me.....must not have ANY copyright 
protection!




Jeme A Brelin <jeme@brelin.net>
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Michael A Rolenz wrote:
>  <as I attempt to restrain my snickering>...Now lets consider this
> hypothetical....
> 
> As Jeme has pointed out <repeatedly!>, if the sting of "1"s and "O"s
> are NOT expressing ideas, then they also CANNOT be copyrighted either,
> seemingly this court agrees.  Now...lets add a little more to this
> line of argumentation. Take waht TWI just put forth down under- DVD
> are "software". Obviously it's not source code but little "1"s and
> "Os"....So TWI has just presented a legal argument that EVERYTHING
> they release on DVD is not copyrighted. A good question is how the
> courts try to deal with that problem.

I should have finished this mailbox before replying. :)

You said it exactly right.

Where do they get off claiming copyright over something that is obviously
not the expression of an idea?

(It CONTAINS ideas, but since it does not convey them, it is not an
expression.)

J.
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